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 <h1>Roper Hall</h1>
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  <p>Next you arrive at Roper Hall; originally a Roman Catholic boy&#39;s school, which opened in 1874, along with a Catholic Men&#39;s Club and three shops, after an endowment by Elizabeth Roper and Maria Holland in 1872. A child at the school in the late 1930s recalled that Roper Hall and Trinity Council School boys met on the corner of Walker Street and Friargate for lunchtime fisticuffs. Another memory was that the Roper boys were normally successful in the annual swimming competition; despite them being unable to afford the entrance fee to practice at the Saul Street Baths. They used the canal instead!</p>
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